Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt...
by unclebucknasty on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:12PM
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>I don't see how this can work in practice.
That's because the admissions process is not the line-by-line ranking exercise you're implying.
In some cases an SAT may help to complete the picture of an applicant. In other cases, other attribute permutations are enough. Maybe #1 was close and the SAT sealed it. But, it's not necessarily the case that applicant #2 was hurt by not submitting their SAT (or would have fared any better by submitting even a perfect SAT score).
That's because the admissions process is not the line-by-line ranking exercise you're implying.
In some cases an SAT may help to complete the picture of an applicant. In other cases, other attribute permutations are enough. Maybe #1 was close and the SAT sealed it. But, it's not necessarily the case that applicant #2 was hurt by not submitting their SAT (or would have fared any better by submitting even a perfect SAT score).